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It's more what you'd call "relative". You could probably call it "subjective" if the meaning of the word weren't so loaded.
by Taywee 5y ago
It's more what you'd call "relative". You could probably call it "subjective" if the meaning of the word weren't so loaded.
- civilized 5y agoNot sure why you are being downvoted for this, it's very helpful. We should draw a distinction between relative and subjective. A measurement of time only makes sense relative to a given reference frame, but that doesn't mean that time measurement is subjective (i.e. depending on a subject's opinion, or only true from the perspective of a conscious subject). "X time passed in reference frame Y" is an objective fact in relativity. It may be helpful to think about a more mundane example. The results Google returns for a given search term depend on who searches, which makes them relative. But they don't depend on the feelings of the searcher and hence are objective, not subjective.